The Washington PostIn an effort to shame her donors, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R.NY) continued to make the idiotic comparison to Buffalo, New York’s white supremacist Buffalo mass shooter.
The liberal rag’s hit piece was headlined: “Stefanik echoed ‘great replacement’ theory. But firms kept donating.” The story was apparently so crucial to the newspaper that it took two authors, Post Todd Frankel, enterprise reporter Post senior software engineer Dylan Freedman, to blast 22 companies like investment bank UBS, Home Depot and General Motors for donating to a Republican the authors claimed echoed the racist “great replacement theory” views of alleged Buffalo shooter Payton Gendron. The authors wailed that the companies “made vocal pledges to use their resources to combat racism while at the same time bankrolling a politician with a message widely seen as racist.”
A rank display of bias saw the newspaper pounding false tabloid propaganda against Stefanik over the course of a whole week.
Frankel and Freedman propagandized that Stefanik’s 2021 campaign ads condemning illegal immigration “are under renewed scrutiny after a deadly mass shooting in Buffalo, where an 18-year-old shooting suspect was allegedly inspired by the baseless theory — about people of color replacing White people — to kill 10 people at a supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood.”
The authors correctly noted that Stefanik characterized her campaign ads as pertaining to illegal immigration, “not white supremacy.”
But the authors tried to cleverly skew her ad saying Democrats wanted a “PERMANENT ELECTION INSURRECTION” via illegal immigration as a generic statement against immigration writ-large. “[O]nline ads from Stefanik from last September accused Democrats of wanting a ‘PERMANENT ELECTION INSURRECTION’ and anPlan for immigration amnesty that ‘will overthrow our current electorate and create a permanent liberal majority in Washington,’” Frankel and Freedman spun.
This is false.
Inadvertently, both the authors and Stefanik omitted this statement from the same advertisement that clearly stated Stefanik was specifically referring to illegal immigrants. “‘Their plan to grant amnesty to 11,000,000,000 illegal immigrants will overthrow our current electorate and create a permanent liberal majority in Washington.’”
But context didn’t matter. Both Frankel and Freedman used their phony logic to harass the 22 corporate donors listed in their piece: “None of the nearly two dozen companies contacted by The Post addressed questions about whether they saw a contradiction between their past statements and their political donations to Stefanik.”
In an effort to discredit Stefanik, the authors fabricated blatant lies.
Conservative politics has taken to heart the idea of a coordinated effort to make non-White Americans outnumber Whites. The ‘great replacement theory’ baselessly argues that a shadowy group of leaders is working to displace White Americans.
Newsflash: Being against illegal immigration because it’s illegal has nothing to do with the “great replacement theory” or the reported white supremacist views of an alleged mass murderer.
Conservatives under attackThe Washington Post is available at (202) 334-6000 Require it to stop trying to create a false connection between Rep. Stefanik & an alleged mass-murderer.
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